us-005578-irn40090-irn41814
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has or had holder: us-005578
history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
scope and content: Contains an album entitled"Unser Kin" in which Ruth Harzberg Zwilsky documented major steps in her son's Klaus life; dated 1932-1946. The album contains photographs, scrip, documents and handwritten captions.
history: Klaus Werner Max Zwilsky (1932- ) was born in Berlin, Germany on August 16, 1932. He is the only son of Ruth Herzberg Zwilsky and Ehrich Erich Zwilsky. Ruth Herzberg (later Ruth Zwilsky, 1910-1985) was born in Breslau, Germany on May 11, 1910. She was one of six children of Mayer Martin Herzberg, who owned a dry goods store and Elsbeth Förder Herzberg. Ruth attended pharmacy school in Breslau but was not licensed to practice due to anti-Jewish legislation enacted in the fall of 1935 restricting the practice medicine by Jews. Ehrich Zwilsky (1896-1961) was born on August 23, 1896 in Landsberg, East Prussia, Germany (today: Górowo Iławeckie, Poland), 77 km south of Königsberg (today: Kaliningrad, Russia). He attended Gymnasium in Osterode (today Ostroda, Poland) and at age 18, in 1914 he fought in WWI in the German Army. Upon his release from the military service he attended Königsberg University from which he graduated with a pharmacist degree. In 1931 Erich Zwilsky moved to Berlin. He married Ruth Herzberg on August 30, 1931. This was a double wedding ceremony for Ruth and Ehrich, her sister Gisela and Phillip Kozower. The Zwilsky family resided at 10 Krausnickstrasse, in the Mitte district of Berlin and later they moved to 52 Klopstockstrasse in the western part of the city. In November 1936, Klaus Zwilsky started his education in a kindergarten and in April 1938 he continued at a Jewish elementary school located at 58 Klopstockstrasse. The Zwilsky family received their permit to come to India in July 1939 and they were supposed to sail on October 1, 1939. The outbreak of the war wiped out this plan and the Zwilsky family remained in Berlin. In October 1940, Ruth Zwilsky was conscripted as a slave laborer for the Siemens Company in Berlin. Her workday lasted 12 hours a day. In 1941 Klaus was accepted to a Jewish Gymnasium in Berlin, but by June 1942 all Jewish education ceased to function. After the closure of the Jewish schools, Klaus spent many days and nights at…
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has or had some members with language: pol
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1932-01-01
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identifier: irn41814
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1946-12-31
type: RecordSet
title: Unser Kind
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